Colchis Unit Roster

Jari (Colchian Levy Spearmen) Armed with a rectangular wicker shield, a spear, and knives or axes, these levies wear a tunic, often brightly coloured, but have no armour at all, even a linen cap. These are poor commoners, thrown to the battle with little training, though they will follow simple orders. They are not intended to make complicated tactical moves, but only offer a large-scale spear buffer.
Class: 3 Size: 300

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Ekdromoi Hoplitai (Light Hoplites) Discipline is needed to carry a spear and bear a shield in the phalanx.
Class: 2 Size: 200

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Epistratoi Hoplitai (Levy Hoplites) Any honest citizen can take up the shield and answer to the name of hoplite.
Class: 3 Size: 200

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Khangaramephi (Colchian Hoplites) These spearmen fight as a battle-line unit, using the phalanx formation. Their clothes are those of the Persian kardaka, and their greek-style linen armour is reinforced with bronze scales. They also bear a short sword and a 75cm to 1-meter wide aspis shield, made with wood and reinforced with bronze. They also wear a crested Urartian cone helmet. In battle, they usually stay with the king.
Class: 2 Size: 200

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Epilektoi Hoplitai (Greek Elite Hoplites) Hoplites date back to the wars between the Greek city-states in the 8th and 7th Centuries BCE. During the Greco-Persian Wars, most hoplites wore a Corinthian-style bronze helm, and a cuirass of bronze, stiffened linen, or canvas.
Class: 1 Size: 200

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Euzonoi (Greek Infantry) These infantrymen are basic soldiers levied from the general population to serve where needed.
Class: 3 Size: 300

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Pezoi (Colchian Corsair Axemen) These raiders use axes to quickly strike at the flanks of those who oppose them.
Class: 2 Size: 200

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Chalyboi Doryphoroi (Chalybes Pikemen) The armour of these spearmen consists of a leather helmet, greaves, and a long quilted linen tunic. Instead of the leather pteryges of a Greek corselet, the Chalybes have plaited cords to provide protection below the cuirass. Their main weapon is a sarissa. They are useful against light infantry, but their lack of shields means they are vulnerable to enemy arrows.
Class: 2 Size: 256

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Chalyboi Machairaphoroi (Chalybes Swordsmen) Coming from the area of Chaldia in northern Anatolia, these fearsome warriors were among the first in the region to perfect the art of ironsmithing and swordcraft.
Class: 2 Size: 200

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Rkinashgharthamephish Jari (Colchian Foot Guards) These men are the elite, drawn from the best of those willing to serve in the prestigious royal guard. The short-sleeved iron scale corselet worn by these men provides a high degree of protection. They use a large old-fashioned, circular silver shield with an iron rim, similar to the Greek Aspis shield. Exceptionally well-drilled and trained, these men have the discipline and organisation to do whatever their lord might ask of them, and they are full of courage, unwilling to turn their back on the enemy.
Class: 1 Size: 200

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Georgikoi Machairaphoroi (Western Georgian Infantry) These Iberian mountaineers form some of the Kartvelian kingdom’s most efficient medium infantry, using a combination of javelins, swords, and tabar axes.
Class: 2 Size: 200

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Armazis Dacva (Late) (Armazi Heavy Infantry) Armazi Heavy Infantry are quite similar to the Nakharar of Armenia. They are covered in scale armour and helmets, with chainmail along the neck. They fight with maces and axes, and use oval shields for defence.
Class: 2 Size: 200

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Mesthaganeephi (Colchian Hunters) Drawn from the peasant classes of all societies, these archers are those people who survive using their hunting skills. Learning to use a bow well is something that takes a lifetime of constant practice, and putting food on the table provides good practice.
Class: 3 Size: 175

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Meisindeephi (Colchian Skirmishers) These local Caucasian javelineers are raised from remote villages, and fight with light equipment of their own. They are better for guerrilla warfare, but they can still perform frontal skirmishing in any pitched battle.
Class: 3 Size: 175

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Meshqurdumeephi (Colchian Slingers) These men are slingers from the Caucasus mountains, accustomed to firing various bullets (natural or specially shaped, even lead ones) at great distance. Their skills are impressive and as warriors, they are equipped and trained slightly better than average tribal archers or slingers, and capable of close fighting as well.
Class: 3 Size: 175

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Psiloi Akontistai (Greek Javelinmen) Lightly armed javelinmen, intended to harass and disrupt the enemy battle line.
Class: 3 Size: 175

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Shuanare Jar (Svan Warriors) Certainly amongst the best archers in the region, these troops can stand their ground fiercely, with powerful long-range composite bows and a quiver of specially-shaped arrows. They are also highly skilled in close combat with their spears.
Class: 2 Size: 175

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Iphikratous Peltastai (Iphicratean Early Peltasts) Before developing into their more well-known formation, the so-called Iphicratean peltasts, inspired by the reforms of Iphicrates, are equipped with long spears and light armour in order to counter hoplite tactics.
Class: 2 Size: 175

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Prodromoi (Colchian Medium Cavalry) These soldiers are armed with javelins and a deadly Tabar axe for the clash of battle. While unable to stand up to a charge of Parthian cataphracts or shatter a Seleucid phalanx, they can hold their own against medium and light cavalry, or break lighter infantry.
Class: 2 Size: 120

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Mesathkhedeni Mkhedroba (Kartvelian Light Horse Skirmishers) These light cavalrymen are deadly with their javelins and ready to finish what is left with their axes.
Class: 3 Size: 120

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Hippakontistai (Colchian Scout Cavalry) These speedy, light cavalrymen specialise in shadowing and harrassing enemy forces.
Class: 2 Size: 120

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Mkhedroba (Kartvelian Cavalry) These petty nobles, earning small properties, are well-protected, use a short kontos lance. They form the bigger part of the lancer cavalry, mounted on medium-sized horses, which can be very fast and nervous. Perfect to counter most cavalry units, they are extremely good at protecting the flanks of the army and chasing light infantry, or they can add their weight to the charge of other cavalry units.
Class: 2 Size: 120

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Xystophoroi (Heavy Lancers) These lancers have a strong charge, and can break enemies quickly.
Class: 2 Size: 100

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Dudmanjghveresh Tskhenenjephi (Colchian Bodyguard Cavalry) This general has a bodyguard of loyal and heavily armoured cavalrymen to accompany him onto the field. Armed with lances, these men are superb shock cavalry, able to deliver a devastating and almost unstoppable charge; they are also equipped with swords so that they can fight effectively in continued hand-to-hand combat.
Class: 1 Size: 120

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Thorosani Mkhedroba (Late) (Kartvelian Cataphracts) Some higher nobles are retained in the royal guard as cataphract lancers. They are kept in reserve in battle and launched at the right time, delivering an unstoppable shock to the enemy. After the charge of their heavily armoured horses and use of their long kontos lances, they enter melee combat using axes and longswords.
Class: 1 Size: 120

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Thureophoroi Euzonoi (Thureos Swordsmen) These warriors are a flexible force, able to throw javelins from afar and quickly go into melee after.
Class: 3 Size: 300

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Peltastai (Peltasts) These javelin-armed light infantry are used to harass slower, heavier enemy units.
Class: 2 Size: 175

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Thorakitai Doriphoroi (Thorax Spearmen) These warriors are the first line of an army, strong in defence against cavalry with their spears.
Class: 2 Size: 200

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Thorakitai (Thorax Swordsmen) These well-protected warriors are a danger in melee and with their javelins.
Class: 2 Size: 200

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